Slattery v. Pratt Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by a moulder employed in the defendant’s factory for injuries received while operating a Ridgway oil governed air hoist, the first count of the declaration alleging a defect in machinery under St. 1887, c. 270, and the second count being at common law.
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Tort by a moulder employed in the defendant’s factory for injuries received while operating a Ridgway oil governed air hoist, the first count of the declaration alleging a defect in machinery under St. 1887, c. 270, and the second count being at common law. Writ dated October 11, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court, before GrasJdll, J., it appeared that the plaintiff was forty-five years of age, that he had been a moulder by trade for twenty-eight years before the accident, and that he had been employed by the defendant as a moulder from 1872 to 1879, and again from 1884 until the time…
1Opinion of the CourtLorikg, J.
There was evidence that the defendant was negligent in undertaking to improve the hoist by substituting a three quarters inch check valve for the one half inch check valve used in the original construction of the hoist.
The defendant had put one Inslee in “ charge of the mechanical department of the defendant’s works,” including the machine in question. _ Inslee testified that he noticed that this hoist would sometimes give a jerk when the piston rod was being lowered with the load attached, and that “in order to prevent or remedy this jerking,” he had ordered the one half inch Pratt and Cady…
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